PetaPixel

When it comes to telling stories at a magazine like National Geographic, there is always more story to tell than there are magazine pages to fill. While photographing “The Dogs of War,” the cover story for the June 2014 issue, Adam Ferguson’s assignment was complicated by an unforeseen encounter with a Belgian Malinois at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas.

His personal experience didn’t make it into the magazine, but Sarah Leen, Director of Photography at National Geographic magazine and the photo editor for “The Dogs of War,” thought it was worth sharing.